1998 - Wallace V. deGruy, a retired electrical engineer for New Orleans Public Service, Inc., died April 17 of heart failure at Ferncrest Manor Nursing Home. He was 81. Mr. deGruy was a life-long resident of New Orleans. He graduated from Jesuit High School and Tulane Unviersity. He was a Coast Guard radio technician and later a Navy lieutenant during World War II. He worked for NOPSI for 42 years. He was a member of Tau Beta Pi electrical engineering honor society, the Louisiana Engineering Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He was a parishioner of St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Church and received the Order of St. Louis Medallion from the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Survivors include his wife, Helen S. Garniewicz deGruy; a son, Mark V. deGruy of Mandeville; a daughter, Claudia V. deGruy Voulgarakis; and two granchildren. A Mass will be said Saturday at 10 a.m. at St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Church, 5500 Paris Ave. Visitation will begin at 9 a.m. Burial will be in St.Louis Cemetery No. 3. Jacob Schoen & Son Funernal Home is in charge of arrangements. (Photo with article) New Orleans :Public Library Times Picayune Newspaper April 24, 1999, B4, c1 Helen Kendrick